Business Presentations course
FireFly Method
A practical approach for developing content creation skills
and delivering professional presentations
The Challenge
How can we make impactful presentations, with no stress or nervousness?
In today’s business environment, the ability to make quality presentations is a critical skill for certain roles within the organisation.
Yet, public speaking is so intimidating that the fear of doing it—glossophobia—affects 75% of the population. However, the pressure to deliver quality presentations remains just as important.
Those who are proficient in creating and delivering impactful presentations understand that these require much more than talent and inspiration. Successful presentations mean following a structured activity, collaborating with others, and using standard techniques for creating and delivering presentations.
These ingredients, along with the FireFly Method, help you keep your emotions in check while preparing for and delivering a presentation.
Are you ready to find a way to achieve this goal?
Training Summary
A hands-on course that helps you develop the skills you need to create valuable content, amazing visuals, impact delivery, and build confidence.
This course is based on the FireFly Presentations method, which emphasizes structure and content-oriented presentations. We are now expanding this offering to other markets, as we are the only training provider in Romania delivering a Business Presentations course using this method.
Who should attend?
Without limiting ourselves to a few specific positions from the organisation, we can mention the following roles among those who are common users of this method:
- Managers
- Project managers
- Salespeople
- Marketing and communication specialists
- Technical specialists
- Employees in the financial-accounting departments
- Production
- Employees of non-profit organizations
What do participants get?
By the end of this course, you will:
- Learn the knowledge and develop the skills to create and deliver a successful presentation using the FireFly Presentations method.
- Learn how to identify the needs and expectations of the audience
- Find out about new tools for building and validating content
- Be able to master a generally valid recipe that you can easily adapt to each situation.
- Gain the ability to build an impactful presentation that will “flow” consistently and will sound like a “story” that others will want to learn how it ends
- Understand the audience’s reactions and know how to prepare to effectively manage them
- Develop strategies for delivering the presentation
- Practice the acquired skills during practical activities
Trainers
Marian Stirbescu
Master Presenter, Speaker
Professional in making and delivering business presentations, Marian is the author of the FireFly Presentations guide. He always manages to simplify the ideas to the essence and to build valuable messages for the audience, delivering convincing presentations.
Nicoleta Raduta
Senior Trainer
Certified senior trainer, and designer of evaluation and certification programs. Nicoleta has a particular interest in refining those methods that can increase results in terms of professional excellence, and she is actively contributing to this field. Provides unique experiences to participants, using an appropriate mix of techniques focused on engaging and developing people.
Business Presentations course agenda
The topics are delivered in an interactive format, as a simulation, covering the following areas:
The specifics of Business Presentations
- Factors that influence presentations
- Defining success criteria
- FireFly Presentations Method (3×3)
Presentation planning
- Defining objectives
- Identifying audience expectations
- Presentation strategy
Creating relevant content
- Creating the content scheme
- Articulating ideas, messages, and supporting information in the form of a story
- Creating relevance, validating content
- Speech vehicles
Visual aids in presentations – a practical guide to creating visual elements
Preparing the delivery, optimising the content
Delivering the presentation
- Capturing interest and maintaining attention
- Managing audience reactions
- Managing emotions
- Use of visual aids
Practice
Business Presentations course
Company benefits
Organisations get to constantly achieve superior results by investing in the development of employees’ presentation skills. These skills are essential for companies that are moving further toward working in collaborative environments. After mastering the methods and techniques involved in creating and delivering impactful presentations, organisations can reach measurable benefits.
Saves time
for the management team, by reducing the negative impact of low-quality presentations
Faster decision-making
through impactful presentations
Quality communication
increased throughout the organisation
Fast adaption
and alignment with management initiatives within the organisation based on this tool
Good initiatives
don’t miss out on good initiatives due to poor presentations
Tired of getting ineffective advice?
We are constantly trying to eliminate the “advisory” component. Even though you will occasionally come across some recommendations
and personal examples from the trainers, personal ‘tips’ have been excluded and practical time management solutions
have been introduced, useful solutions, applicable both in the office and in personal life.
Business Presentations course
Advantages for you
Fast development
of presentations
Presenters who practice the method consistently can develop their skills more quickly, cutting down the time needed to prepare for presentations.
Mastery
With a work plan, users of the method can develop credible estimates of the time required for the development and delivery of presentations.
Controlling emotions
By using a structure and rehearsal, presenters become more confident about delivering and develop their ability to control their emotions in a positive way.
Impact and high quality
The use of an iterative development process increases the quality of the presentation by levelling up the degree of the audience’s satisfaction.
Registration
We offer price options for individual participation and for groups.
For groups of more than 10 participants variable discount is included for courses dedicated to your organization.
PrIce per participant
1-9 participants
For individual participation or groups of up to 9 participants
price per group
10-15 participants
Fixed price for groups of 10 to 15 participants
*All prices are VAT Exclusive
Customized training
Dedicated sessions
Dedicated sessions are available for a minimum of 8 participants.
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In-house sessions
Do you have a group of at least 8 colleagues interested in this topic and would you like to organise a dedicated session for your company?
Let’s get in touch!
Send us an email at training@axioma-solutions.co.uk
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© Copyright information
FireFly Presentations is a free guide under the license of Creative Commons, 4.0 International Attribution (CC BY 4.0).